Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Takeshi Tarumi

Kazuhiko Ushiyama

Takeshi Utsunomiya

The present invention provides a resource management apparatus that comprises a unit configured to obtain upper-limit values of resource usage amounts of applications in executable state; and a unit configured to allocate a requested resource in relation to a resource obtainment request received from a sender application if a sum total of the upper-limit values does not exceed a resource amount that can be allocated to the applications or an resource amount requested by the resource obtainment request does not exceed a reference value, and cause the resource obtainment request to wait and request an application that is not the sender application to release a resource if the sum total of the upper-limit values exceeds the resource amount that can be allocated to the applications and the resource amount requested by the resource obtainment request exceeds the reference value.

Resource management apparatus, resource management method and image forming apparatus

A system for customizing a printer driver, comprises: an accepting unit configured to accept a customization setting for the printer driver; a detection unit configured to detect the printer driver from a database; a generation unit configured to generate a customized printer driver by applying the customization setting to the printer driver detected by the detection unit; and an attachment unit configured to generate a catalog file for the customized printer driver, and attach an electronic signature to the catalog file.

System, control method therefor, control method for information processing apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable medium in which client and server customize a printer driver in cooperation with each other

In a touch panel environment, it is difficult to notice when a printer driver displays a user interface and whether processing is waiting for an input from a user at the time of printing. When print setting information requiring that a printer driver displays a message dialogue for prompting a user's input at the time of printing is set, an information processing apparatus activates software operated in a desktop environment in a process different from print processing.

Information processing apparatus, control method, and storage medium

A program delivery server includes a collection unit configured to collect log information including actual use records of functions of an image forming apparatus, via a network, a selection unit configured to select at least one program, from among a plurality of control programs, using the log information that the collection unit collected, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a control program selected by the selection unit to the network.

Program delivery server, program delivery method and computer-readable storage medium for printing an image on a recording medium based on input data

To enable printing using an arbitrary type of printer without functional limitation by a user merely specifying the printer to be used from the provided printers. When executing print processing with a virtual printer driver, an output device identification processing unitthat identifies an output device, and a printer driver management processing sectionthat executes preparation processing and organizing processing for print processing with the virtual printer driverare provided. The printer driver management processing sectionduring a preparation processing acquires hardware information for the output device, searches for a corresponding printer driver that based on the hardware information, and installs a dedicated or a generic printer driver identified by searching. The printer driver management processing sectionduring the organizing processing determines whether configuration information of the output device is required. When configuration information for the output device is required, the printer driver management processing unit determines whether the configuration information has been acquired. When the configuration information for the output device has not been acquired, the configuration information for the output device is acquired.

Print control apparatus, print control method, and storage medium for configuring output device based on acquired information

Upon layout of plural contents on a sheet, containers to lay out the contents are automatically generated based on the sizes of the contents. The generated respective containers for the plural contents are arranged such that the containers are included in a sheet size. The plural contents are laid out with the arranged respective containers.

Layout editing apparatus and layout editing method

A printing system includes a receive controller that enables by using a user interface unit an input of an instruction during performing of first print processing with a print apparatus, and an operation controller that enables the print apparatus to perform check processing before completion of the first print processing in the case where the instruction is input, the check processing being second print processing by using print data which is used in the first print processing, the operation controller enabling the print apparatus to continue the first print processing after the second print processing.

Printing system, job processing method, and storage medium

To reduce the work load in sheet cassette exchange operations without changing a print processing order, a printing system can schedule the exchange operations so that a sheet type to be used latest among sheet types presently set in a printer can be designated as an exchange object. Furthermore, according to user's preference, the printing system can prohibit immediate exchange of sheet cassettes or realize simultaneous exchange of plural sheet types.

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Kawasaki, Japan

Takeshi Tarumi